Sentence examples for puzzlement when from inspiring English sources

Glass expressed puzzlement when asked why so many departments struggle to turn a profit.

("He has an accent?" Larry King asked, in puzzlement, when the family appeared on his show in 2010).

U Sein Maung, a 50-year-old day laborer and father of four, squinted in puzzlement when asked about the pending visit.

These contradictions and abrupt reversals, which caused considerable puzzlement when they occurred, were to be explained partly by an unusual system of speechwriting that Mr. Nixon had adopted.

But Dibango's pride turned to puzzlement when he bought the album, only to find that the song was credited to Michael Jackson and no one else.

Anouza Phothisane, 23, the leader of a break-dance troupe called the Lao Rockets, which will perform in the opening ceremony of the SEA Games, says foreigners often look at him with puzzlement when he says he is from Laos.

Why bother studying wisdom, or how thinkers have tried to explain existence and other very anti-pragmatic puzzlements when you can better spend your time learning subjects that will get you a job?

Imagine my puzzlement, then, when on Oct. 8, we were treated to a 1997 shot of Bill Clinton and several of his advisers in the Map Room.

And her pretended lament leaves one comforted precisely because it reminds one of Fabrizio's puzzlement 50 years earlier, when she asked him to drop his mask of charm to reveal himself and he could only pause in the voluptuous swirls of his dance to say, "Everyone else is real, with real lives and plans".

When puzzlement is balanced by pleasure, what more could you want?

In the character-revealing song "A Puzzlement," the King sings, "When I was a boy / World was better spot.